Women’s Healthcare: Keeping Up The Fight
The Brown Girls Guide to Politics
Acast Creative Studios
3.3 • 845 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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This episode of The Brown Girls Guide to Politics is in partnership with Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Planned Parenthood is a health care provider, education and advocacy center delivering reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of people worldwide.
The Brown Girls Guide to Politics Podcast is all about amplifying the voices of women who are too often forgotten in media coverage. Host A’shanti Gholar leads conversations with women changing the face of politics. In the BGG to Politics blog, A’shanti created a space for women of color to learn about the current state of politics, to support others breaking into the political sphere, and to celebrate incredible women changing the course of the country. A’shanti founded the blog in 2018 and Wonder Media Network is thrilled to extend her platform to audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all. I'm Ashanti Golar, host of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics. |
| 0:05.1 | The BGG is the one-stop shop for women of color who want to talk and shape the world of politics. |
| 0:12.9 | This season, we're getting deep into the details of Project 2025. |
| 0:18.7 | In 900-plus pages, it's proposing dramatic conservative changes to education, |
| 0:24.3 | health care, and foreign affairs. But underpinning it all is an entirely new vision for how |
| 0:31.1 | the government operates, and that could change everything. Thank you so much to our friends |
| 0:37.2 | at Way to Win for supporting us |
| 0:39.0 | and making this season possible. Listen to the Brown Girls Guide to Politics wherever you get |
| 0:44.8 | your podcast. Welcome back, Brown Girls, to another episode of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics. |
| 1:02.8 | And today we are joined by Dr. Mira Shaw with Planned Parenthood. |
| 1:08.1 | And we are going to talk about women's health care, something that is important to all of us, |
| 1:15.6 | and something that's going to be even more important under the Biden Harris administration. |
| 1:21.6 | And we're going to dive into some of the things that we can expect over the first 100 days. So let's get started. Dr. Shaw, |
| 1:30.6 | thank you so much for joining us. Yeah, thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here. |
| 1:35.7 | So first, we just want to know a little bit more about you. You're a fancy doctor, which is |
| 1:41.7 | wonderful. What made you want to go into this field? Yeah, so I am a family |
| 1:48.5 | medicine physician. So I am trained to care for the basic needs, the health care needs of all people. |
| 1:57.7 | So women, men, trans, non-binary community, so all people. |
| 2:02.8 | I've really narrowed my focus into sexual and reproductive health care, as well as |
| 2:08.1 | gender for main care for the trans and non-binary community. |
| 2:11.4 | I'm currently the chief medical officer of Planned Parenthood, Hudson Beconic, where I oversee |
| 2:17.3 | 10 of the health centers that are |
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